Formative

Today, standing on the pavements during a fire alarm, we talked about movies from our childhood that we felt were the most formative. I mentioned the Red Balloon, a wordless, but dramatic, short film from 1956 that played repeatedly on television in the 70s. The films mixes solitude, joy, bravery and folly and it probably helped form both my melancholic nature and my love of Paris. And you can watch it online here.